Friars Fest Gets Serious

The famed Friars Club has joined the Film Festival game by starting their own––the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival. And for their opening night film, they’ve chosen the Coen Brothers’ new comedy A Serious Man. The opening night film will unspool on Thursday September 24 at the famed Ziegfeld Theater in New York City. In case you didn’t know, the Friars Club was started in 1903 as a place for the who’s who of entertainment to relax. Overtime it has become the honor roll for American comics, a place where their friends (and enemies) could have at them, all in the name of a good laugh.